Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-03-14

slQe OF college, nilt'
DIR. McGlumphy asks us TO state thai
tie report that scarlet fever is in bis
family is untrue. They are all in ex-
csllent health.
OiBrien is putting q telephone into
his real estate Office to-day. He has to
economics time these days and the
telephone Will help him do it
Mr.. Hand is the only one of the Bis
marck squad who has arrived. Mr.
Smith does not come directly home and
his arrival will be delayed q few days.
The farmers OF the bottom east of jim
river are ready to pack their household
goods and emovs to the bluffs ct q
moments notice. A strict watch is
being kept on the Missouri.
1t is reported, via the Sioux City
Journal, that the Milwaukee company
will soon run through dining and sleep
ing car trains between Chicago and
Mitchell over the Yankton route.
The vestry of Christ church has ex-
tended q call to Rev. @ Fl. Bonn, OF
Fort Scott, the gentleman who preached
in Christ church on the 9th inst. Mr..
BONN is considering the proposition.
The bachelors club meets at the
Merchants hotel this evening at ten
O'Clock for the purpose OF initiating j.
y. Murphy, who desires to become o
member. A large attendance is re-
quested.
The next regular meeting of the Yank.
ton Philharmonic will not occur until
after the spring vacation of Yaukton
college, which begins on the 23d of this
month and holds through until the 7th
of April.
The pork house company has CON-
menced shipping the product of j January
February and March, of which there is a
house full. The high price of pork
warrants the shipment and ensures q
margin OF fifty per cent.
NJ. P. Gilman, who came up from
Omaha Saturday, was told by parties in
that city that the Missouri Pacific would
:Stend to Yankton this season. On the
Strength of this assurance Omaha parties
are buying Yankton real estate.
F. I. FAIR, who returned from a bust
ness trip through the surrounding eoun-
try on Friday, says he heard perhaps
more about Yankton's boom on the out,
| side than he does at home. This city't
prospects are talked of abroad as well ss
in Ysnkton.
1t is estimated that the building O
the two new wings to the Dakota insane
asylum at Yankton will consume one
and one half million brick, and that {
hundred men will be kept busy through
the entire season on that work alone
Yankson will supply q large number o.
laborers with paying work this year.
A Kansas City paper states that right
of way out of Topeka over the brIdg'
of the Rock Island road across the Ka1
has been secured by the Kansas Nebras
ka & Dakota road. This arrangement
will expedite the Yankton extension o
the road and though Topeka is $50 mile
away the intervening distance will b
quickly covered.
Yesterday was the first Sunday il
nearly a quarter of q century upon whicl
the ringing of church bells has no
broken in upon the morning dreams o
the man who was kept out late on Sat
urday night by the real estate boom.
sorrowful sight was the countenance 0
the family man whose household mem
bers were all obliged to remain OF home
He is afraid that none of the health COM
missioners will climb the golden stairs
V. j. Jypson and wife were two of tb
passengers out on the Northwestern
early train this morning. Mr.. and Mrs
Jypson reached Yankton from their Ok
home in CORTLAND, New Y ork, last faI
and after spending the four most dis
agreeable months OF the year 10. Dakot
they became homesick and went bach
Dakota registers a kick against any mon
such unfair trials. May Mr.. and Mr.
Jypson find snow and mud nine fee
deep in New York.
For the convenience of prisoners VIII
desire to escape. the holesin the roof {
cooler made by the last fugitive is lei
open, From time immemorial it ha
been the habit of uneasy vags of a wei
derIng turn of mind to damage the shii
giles OF the roof whenever they conclude,
to go and they we're not particular abou
making the opening in the same plac
every time. To save the roof froi
further destruction the last avenue {
escape is left open and there is n
J further excuse for destruction of prop
etty.
Farmers coming into the city fro
east of the James river say that tt
wagon bridge across the Jim is in d.
cidedly shaky condition. The river bel
ween the wagon bridge, and the Mort
western railway bridge ID clear of ice bl
a large amount CT ice is bea
ing against the north Sit
of the wagon bridge and the structur
is liable to sustain some damage. The
is q report current on the streets as ,
!, go to press that q portion OF the bridl
has gone out, but there are no mean
hand of q ascertaining the truth Of Il
= report.
= A railroad bridge across q small ore